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Book Zimmermann s Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook  1776 1780

Download or read book Zimmermann s Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook 1776 1780 written by Heinrich Zimmermann (of Wiesloch) and published by Wellington [N.Z.] : By authority, W.A.G. Skinner, Government printer. This book was released on 1926 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimmermann's account of his travels on the HMS Discovery accompanying Cook's third voyage to the Pacific (1776-1780).

Book Zimmermanns Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook 1776 1780

Download or read book Zimmermanns Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook 1776 1780 written by Heinrich Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zimmermann s Captain Cook

Download or read book Zimmermann s Captain Cook written by Heinrich Zimmermann (of Wiesloch) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Captain James Cook  R N   F R S   Circumnavigator

Download or read book Bibliography of Captain James Cook R N F R S Circumnavigator written by Mitchell Library, Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of an exhibition held to celebrate the bi-centenary of Captain Cook's birth.

Book The Three Voyages of Captain Cook

Download or read book The Three Voyages of Captain Cook written by Frank Paluka and published by [Pittsburgh] : Beta Phi Mu. This book was released on 1974 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery

Download or read book The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery written by J.C. Beaglehole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain James Cook?s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole?s edition of Cook?s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its objective was the discovery of ?a Northern Passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean? - the North-west Passage, sought since the 16th century, which would have transformed the pattern of world trade. The search was to take Cook into high latitudes where, as in the Antarctic, his skill in ice navigation was tested. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and insight, the tensions which led Cook, by then a tired man, into miscalculations alien to his own nature and habits. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook?s second voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, both admirable observers, left journals which are also here printed in full for the first time. The documentation is completed, as in the previous volumes, by appendixes of documents and correspondence and by reproductions of original drawings and paintings mainly by John Webber, the artist of the expedition. In Dr Beaglehole?s words, ?no one can study attentively the records of Cook?s third, and last, v

Book Distant Dominion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Gough
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 077484423X
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Distant Dominion written by Barry Gough and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The voyages of Cook and Vancouver heralded a vast influx of irrepressible white men.... They brought with them their morals, ideologies, knowledge, technology, plants and animals. They also brought diseases, rum and guns....powers to build and powers to destroy." Until the 1700's, the Northwest Coast of North America stood largely apart from the civilized world. Formidable mountain barriers and remoteness from Atlantic sea lanes kept the territory outside the orbit of emerging European empires. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however, Britain, Spain, France, Russsia, and the United States vied for control of this promising new frontier. Three of history's greatest mariners -- Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook, and Captain George Vancouver -- spearheaded British expeditions of discovery and trade to the Northwest coast. Despite competition from her European and American rivals, Britains ability to use and control the sea enabled her to establish by the late 1700's a "beachhead of empire" in the area now known as British Columbia.Gough shows how, by outmanoevring her Spanish rivals in a "skilful game of diplomatic chess," Britain concluded the Nootka Agreement. Thus she was able to exploit her trading partnership with the coast Indians and cement a lucrative sea-borne commerce with the Far East. The arrival overland of the Nor'westers and other fur-trading groups further strengthened Britain's financial and political interests in the area -- ending forever the isolation of Northwest America, and 'changing beyond measure the culture of its Indian peoples.' Distant Dominion is the first comprehensive survey to examine Britain's motives for expeditions to this most distant frontier of British maritime development. It is also the first to draw the history of the coast into the general realm of Pacific history, relating its development to events in Europe, the American eastern seaboard, Australia, the Falkland Islands, and China. This entertaining book offers fresh insight into an exciting chapter of North American history.

Book The Washington Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ledyard

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  • Author : Bill Gifford
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780151012183
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Ledyard written by Bill Gifford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Historical Review

Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Book Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Download or read book Pacific Northwest Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Captain James Cook  R N   F R S   Circumnavigator

Download or read book Bibliography of Captain James Cook R N F R S Circumnavigator written by Mitchell Library, Sydney and published by New York : B. Franklin. This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Russians and Australia

Download or read book The Russians and Australia written by Glynn Barratt and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his pioneering work on Russia's early exploits in Australia and the Pacific, historian Glynn Barratt again breaks new ground in presenting the first comprehensive study of Russian naval, social, mercantile, and scientific enterprise in New South Wales between 1807 and 1835.

Book The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages

Download or read book The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages written by University of California, San Diego. University Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contact and Conflict

Download or read book Contact and Conflict written by Robin Fisher and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans -- fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin Fisher has written a new introduction in which he surveys the literature since 1977 and comments on any new insights into these relationships.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: